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Tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners captured by Chinese communists were serving in their military forces in August 1946 and more than 60,000 were believed to still be held in Communist-controlled areas as late as April 1949. [76] Hundreds of Japanese POWs were killed fighting for the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War ...
While the states often moderated their treatment of POWs due to fear of retaliation, in the early stages of the war, the number of POWs held by both sides of the Asian and Pacific theater varied drastically: by the end of 1942 Japanese POWs in Allied hands numbered well under a thousand, while there were over 200,000 British Commonwealth and ...
Pages in category "World War II prisoners of war held by Japan" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 367 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[1]: 488–489, [488] The last POWs of WWII were Germans and Japanese released from the USSR camps in 1956; some Japanese were held in China until 1964. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] : 192, 196 A few exceptions include stories such as András Toma , considered the last POW of WWII released from captivity, who was discovered living in a Russian psychiatric ...
This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.
An example of Japanese P.O.W. propaganda. The Ōfuna Camp (大船収容所, Ōfuna shūyōsho) was an Imperial Japanese Navy installation located in Kamakura, outside Yokohama, Japan during World War II, where high-value enlisted and officers, particularly pilots and submariner prisoners of war were incarcerated and interrogated by Japanese naval intelligence. [1]
Tikka Khan – Japanese POW during WWII, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistani Army; Wajid Khan – Canadian politician, Pakistan-India War 1971 fighter pilot; Yahya Khan – German POW during WWII, last president of a united Pakistan; Maximilian Kolbe – Roman Catholic priest from Poland, interned in Auschwitz, and canonized as a saint
At least 545 Japanese POWs attempted to escape from a camp near Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. Most sources say that 234 POWs were killed or committed suicide. The remainder were recaptured. [citation needed] The Great Papago Escape, on December 23, 1944, was the largest POW escape to occur from an American facility.